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22 “How long, O (A)simple ones, will you love simplicity?
And (B)scoffers delight in scoffing
And [a]fools (C)hate knowledge?

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  1. Proverbs 1:22 One who fails in wisdom due to willful sin

22 “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple?
How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing
    and fools hate knowledge?

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Leave the (A)presence of a fool,
As you have not known lips of knowledge there.

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Leave the presence of a fool,
    for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

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20 There is desirable (A)treasure and oil in the abode of the wise,
But a foolish man (B)swallows it up.

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20 Precious treasure remains[a] in a wise man’s dwelling,
    but a foolish man devours it.

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  1. Proverbs 21:20 Gk: Heb and oil

12 A prudent man sees evil and hides,
The simple pass on and are punished.

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12 A prudent man sees danger and hides himself;
    but the simple go on, and suffer for it.

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